Effects of antibiotics on the human microflora

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/512396

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Antibiotic resistance increases mortality and costs in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), but the impact of antibiotic therapy has not been adequately studied. We propose to characterise the behaviour of key elements of the bacterial microflora (resistant bacteria and major resistance genes) in response to antibiotics. We have developed new rapid diagnostics to harness these data and this proposal has the potential to greatly improve diagnostic speed and accuracy and thus clinical outcomes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $419,084.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Allergy

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

antibiotic resistance | diagnostic assay | epidemiology | nosocomial infections | prevention of microbial antibiotic resistance development | resistance spread

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